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Transcription: [00:32:50]
{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
You have some ideas about that don't you? Why deaf people are in printing.
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{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
It's a visually oriented job after your a journeyman printer, after you've finished your apprenticeship, at least the way it used to be.
[00:33:06]
You could go to any newspaper in the country, practically and go to work there. The only things that varied from one paper to, to another one in another town were the locations of the equipment in the shop.
[00:33:19]
So after a couple of days of giving you time to get used to where everything was, then the foreman would give you a competency test and that would determine if you could continue working there.
[00:33:31]
But with, uh, with a hearing impaired person, if he knew the trade all he had to do was get the layout, get the material and he could put the ad together or the page together.
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He didn't have to ask a lot of questions. He didn't need a immediate supervision all the time.
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If you knew your trade you could just be given the material and left alone and do it.
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The same with typesetting, typesetting now they use, they do it a different way but it's basically the same thing.
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If you're a very good typist you could get into typesetting. All the new equipment and you don't need any close supervision. Just basically you're given the job and you've set it.
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{SPEAKER name="Dick Moore/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
I remember also printing was so open. Such an open field for the deaf because not many jobs opportunities at that time in the past.
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Not that many job opportunities. Office work we'd never heard of deaf people there. What deaf, what kind of future did you have and they always say well printing, you should get into printing and the unions came up at that time.
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Now more and more jobs are opening for the deaf people. Really deaf can do things like computer work and so forth, before it was really limited opportunities for the deaf in the past was printing.
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{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
Like to emphasize also that we have many deaf people have their own jobs like, lawyers we have several deaf lawyers